My Entrepreneurial interventions during the individual study period started with approaching the organization which is my potential stakeholders for my research.
I feel these are the important steps in future expansion:
Though, I have not received much positive response due to student visa constraints. But I want to share the insights for my intervention success and failure both:
- Business proposal sent to online platform: OKHAI (https://okhai.org/). Okhai offers handcrafted apparel and lifestyle products created by rural artisans, during my internship at diorama designs ( with my project’s Ethical intermediary & Co-founder of Diorama Designs Ms. Disa Sahu ). We have created a catalog (attached) with all the designs we develop during the individual study period and sent a business proposal to Okhai to list our products. Okhai is one of the famous initiatives run by a prestigious group TATA in India.
This is a success story, where our proposal has been acknowledged, and very soon we are going to list our designs under this platform.
- Not Just a Shop , UAL: I have also approached not just a shop for to provide my products more visibility in London, but unfortunately, I was again been told the challenges of being on Student Visa.
https://notjustashop.arts.ac.uk/
- Lofte pop-up shop : I have been in conversations with daisy from lofte for their pop-up shop. I will reach back to her again.
- I have approached e-commerce like https://www.suchtinystitches.com/ they are an online selling platform for handmade fashion. I asked them for the collaboration in the future of listing our products on their platform for selling in the future.
- Canopy Market : Canopy market , KX also demands a trader certificate, which Is also not allowed under Student Visa.
- Display of products in Exhibition :